Castlemartin
Townland in the civil parish of Martry, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish Caisleán Mháirtín
- Area
- 165 ha
- 408 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 3,158 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemartin, from 107 m² to 219,826 m² (21.98 ha, 54.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 124 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jun 2026N/a
permission to retain domestic store
Retention · Meath County Council, 26162
23 Aug 2024Conditional
the development consists and will consist of the following: Retention Permission for: (A) As constructed foundations and blockwork to floor level, for an extension to the side and rear of dwelling house and also a detached domestic garage at the rear. (B) Demolition of a front porch and raising the roof level of the house by c. 300mm. (C) All ancillary site works. Planning Permission for: (A)The completion of the single storied extensions to the side and rear of the dwelling including alterations to the window ope's of the existing house and completion of the interior. (B) Completion of the detached garage at the rear. (C) Construction of a replacement porch to the front of the house. (D) Installing of a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area. (E) To upgrade and improve the existing combined entrance including improved sightlines. (D) All ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24350
8 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a private dwelling together with the remodel of the existing entrance onto the public road, connection to a septic tank system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22463
8 Oct 2020Conditional
the change of house type to a revised single storey dwelling and associated domestic garage from that granted under PL ref: KA190651. All other aspects of the development are to remain as previously approved
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201437
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlemartin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlemartin.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlemartin.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castlemartin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Castlemartin · Caisleán Mháirtín
- Area
- 1,650,413 m² (165.04 ha, 407.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Martry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Martry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Martry electoral division: 792 people in 246 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Grange, Martry, Phoenixtown, Tankardstown, Teltown
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Castlemartin on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.